Famous Veterans

Retired Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole, the last veteran of the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo during World War II, died Tuesday.

After watching his dad narrowly escape a lynch mob, Eugene Bullard fled to France and took to the skies.

The Loch Ness Monster has been a cryptozoological and biological mystery since as far back as 1933.

In a 1990s interview, Carlos Hathcock talked about his most famous hunts in Vietnam.

For decades after World War II, being a veteran was almost an unspoken prerequisite to run for president.

In 1950, two gunmen tried to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at home.

In his 2010 autobiography, the actor wrote about his experiences fighting on the front lines of the Korean War.

An African-American woman fought to get her intel analyses recognized, even in the face of disaster, during the Vietnam War.

Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills was the only active professional sports player who was killed during the Vietnam War.

"The more we know about our history, the more likely we are to learn from past mistakes and benefit from lessons learned,"...